Crossword clues for funnel
funnel
- Tornado part
- Steamship smokestack
- A conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
- A conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end
- Used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth
- Smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
- Flue; chimney
- Stack of food that describes dinner essentially
- Sport new to the Spanish smoker?
- Ship's smokestack
- Direct pleasure offered by King’s mistress mostly
- Tornado shape
- Ship's chimney
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Funnel \Fun"nel\, n. [OE. funel, fonel, prob. through OF. fr, L. fundibulum, infundibulum, funnel, fr. infundere to pour in; in in + fundere to pour; cf. Armor. founil funnel, W. ffynel air hole, chimney. See Fuse, v. t.]
A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids or pourable solids into a vessel with a narrow opening; a tunnel.
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A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.
Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water.
--Knight.Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, funell, fonel, from Middle French fonel, apparently a word from a southern French dialect, such as Provençal enfounilh (Weekley calls it "a word from the Southern wine trade"), from Late Latin fundibulum, shortened from Latin infundibulum "a funnel or hopper in a mill," from infundere "pour in," from in- "in" + fundere "pour" (see found (v.2)).
1590s, from funnel (n.). Related: Funneled; funneling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel. 2 A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like. vb. 1 To use a funnel. 2 To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense. 3 (context transitive English) To direct (money or resources).
WordNet
n. a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends [syn: funnel shape]
a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth
(nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
[also: funnelling, funnelled]
v. move or pour through a funnel; "funnel the liquid into the small bottle"
[also: funnelling, funnelled]
Wikipedia
A funnel is a pipe with a wide, often conical mouth and a narrow stem. It is used to channel liquid or fine-grained substances into containers with a small opening. Without a funnel, spillage would occur.
Funnels are usually made of stainless steel, aluminium, glass, or plastic. The material used in its construction should be sturdy enough to withstand the weight of the substance being transferred, and it should not react with the substance. For this reason, stainless steel or glass are useful in transferring diesel, while plastic funnels are useful in the kitchen. Sometimes disposable paper funnels are used in cases where it would be difficult to adequately clean the funnel afterward (for example, in adding motor oil to a car). Dropper funnels, also called dropping funnels or tap funnels, have a tap to allow the controlled release of a liquid. A flat funnel, made of polypropylene, utilizes living hinges and flexible walls to fold flat.
The term funnel is sometimes used to refer to the chimney or smokestack on a steam locomotive and usually used in referring to the same on a ship. The term funnel is also applied to other seemingly strange objects like a smoking pipe or a kitchen bin.
A funnel is a pipe with a wide mouth, good for feeding, often conical mouth and a narrow stem.
Funnel may also refer to:
- Funnel (ship)
- Funnel (concurrent computing)
In Computer Science, a funnel is a synchronization primitive used in kernel development to protect system resources. First used on Digital UNIX as a way to "funnel" device driver execution onto a single processor, funnels are now used in the Mac OS X kernel to serialize access to the BSD portion of xnu.
A funnel is a mutual exclusion ( mutex) mechanism that prevents more than one thread from accessing certain kernel resources at the same time. Each thread acquires a funnel when it enters a synchronized portion of the kernel, and releases it when it leaves. If a thread blocks (sleeps) while holding a funnel, the kernel forces the thread to automatically drop the funnel, thereby allowing other threads to enter the synchronized portion of the kernel.
Because a funnel is automatically dropped when a thread blocks, care must be taken to ensure that synchronized resources are acquired again after any blocking operation. Specifically, acquiring a funnel can be a blocking operation, so if multiple funnels are needed, they must be acquired at once. This limits the utility of funnels because it increases the granularity of locking when multiple funnels need to be held at once.
Usage examples of "funnel".
A slice of his course funnel was blue instead of orange and he thought that might indicate an escape route, but when he looked up the key in the automanual he discovered that it was simply a collision vector warning.
Off-books deals were assembled to funnel in other money from banks and outside lenders.
A kind of arm carried a complicated metallic case, about which green flashes scintillated, and out of the funnel of this there smoked the Heat-Ray.
He yawned at the two state security menblack uniforms, black helmets, funnel guns, stunners, shiny boots.
Paleozoic mesofauna he expected to sift through a tullgren funnel, would have meant a damn thing.
Smoke was pouring out of the funnel and the Ferryman was alternately welcoming passengers aboard and dashing amidships to check with Metalsmith about the engine.
The usual methods of supporting the funnel during filtration are shown in fig.
Since then, the loophole has been enlarged to funnel millions to pro teams that are already here, but have threatened to defect.
However it got there, the fea-ture was a rock-strewn funnel that narrowed toward Munchkin as it rose from the plain a thousand feet below us.
They were in a small circular room, shaped like an English oasthouse, its roof running upwards in a funnel to meet the sky.
It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles, each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future.
He had reunified Germany, funneling massive sums of money from West to East Germany to lift the incomes of those who had made far less under communism.
So for a time the small settler community dwelt on the fringe of Samoa, causing difficulties and embarrassements from time to time, but also serving the useful function of funnelling foreign, manufactured goods into Samoan society.
Sabians were called by proper Moslems, had some sort of semiautonomous enclave on an airless moon of one of the gas giants of the orange star, and there had been recent nationalist stirrings among a disaffected few that the Sultan was attempting to quell by funneling more financial aid through the ruling elders.
Under ordinary conditions, sensations are constantly being funneled into the cerebrum and motor impulses are constantly being sprayed outward.